in the night sky ♫

Antisemitism has always existed but it’s never felt this fucking exhausting to be Jewish in all my 21 years of life. Five years ago my non Jewish friends were empathetic when I told them about antisemitism I experienced and now I know I can’t even discuss it with them five years ago I could draw fan art of fictional characters celebrating Hanukkah without getting death threats five years ago I could hang out in niche hobby spaces without seeing someone crochet a Star of David with a slash through it five years ago there weren’t posts on my city’s subreddit minimizing and denying the Holocaust and saying it doesn’t need to be taught in schools five years ago I could wear my Magen David necklace without being spat on five years ago I assumed I could have friendships with people who aren’t Jewish and now I feel like I’m constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop or for them to “find out” my “secret” like fuck man. When am I allowed to feel afraid?

also, many women/people experience controlling behaviour and domestic violence from their partner for the first time during pregnancy. don’t risk thinking “he’s just stressed, it’ll get better when the baby comes” because it won’t. neither you and your child will ever be safe with that man. get out as early and safely as you can

I love this illustration of Yue so much. She looks so young, yet so resigned to her fate. She's practically drowning in that giant parka.

Exactly this. 😏

I completely agree with the criticism of AI here, but the "If you don't like the process of writing, then don't be a fucking writer" comment is Writers-Who-Hate-Writing erasure, and tbh I'm not here for it. Yes, I fucking loathe the entire writing process from start to finish. Yes, I will always opt to keep on writing anyway. Yes, WE EXIST.

reblogging this to add that I often think about the old man yaoi mangaka on bluesky who said "the phrase that finally convinced me that the English language is truly beautiful was 'this shit is so ass'"

Most of my politics about Israel can be summed up as "no, I don't think Israel should have done that, but given that you're under the impression that Israel is the first country do do violence ever, I'm not going to have this conversation with you. Come back when you have indicated you've read a history book about... honestly anywhere ever, actually."